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Monthly Archive for October, 2007

: October, 2007

Economy class on SIA A380, main deck. Photo by James Wallace I’m home again in Seattle after last week’s long trip to Singapore to be on the first commercial flight of the A380 to Sydney. (See my report filed after the A380 landed in Sydney.) …

A storm that moved across Sydney late Friday afternoon delayed the departure of the A380 by about two hours. The plane was scheduled to begin its return trip to Singapore – with many of the same passengers who were on the inaugural flight — at 4 p.m. But the storm closed the airport to all jets and the A380 did not leave until around 6:15 p.m. …

I’m in Singapore after a nearly 18-hour nonstop flight on the airline’s A340-500 from LAX. With me on the plane were a couple of reporter friends and colleagues, including Peter Pae, who covers Boeing, Airbus and aerospace for the LA Times. …

I’m leaving for Singapore, where on Oct. 25 (Singapore time) I’ll be among the media on the first commercial flight of the A380. Singapore Airlines will put the plane in service from Singapore to Sydney. After we arrive in Sydney, I’ll be filing a story online about what the first paying passengers had to say. …

“When we all look back and 787s are rolling out the factory door every three days, we will know this airplane was a watershed event in the whole industry.” — Mike Bair, Oct. 16, 2007 …

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